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Friday’s pre-Bank Holiday weekend news

4 May 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Doctor Who

  • There’s going to be a treat at the end of The Lazarus Experiment. Something that appears to involve John Simm

Film

  • Pierce Brosnan is likely to start soon on a sequel to The Thomas Crowne Affair called The Topkapi Affair
  • Maybe Jessical Biel was too buff. Liv Tyler is Betty Ross in The Incredible Hulk

Music

Australian TV

British TV

  • Bummed you can’t watch CSB’s pirate reality TV show Pirate Master? Don’t worry, Sky One’s just bought the rights [subscription required]

US TV

Thursday’s slightly greyer news

3 May 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Audio plays

  • Lots of Big Finish stuff is happening, including a third season of Sapphire and Steel

Film

  • Commit mental suicide: watch the trailer for Rush Hour 3
  • A picture of the final Iron Man suit
  • Michael Mann’s going to direct a film noir starring Leonardo DiCaprio

(Media) journalism

  • The Daily Mail wants to change its brand association from ‘Middle England’ to ‘Modern Mid Britain’. Good luck on that one, you frothing at the mouth loons [free registration required]
  • John Pilger is giving a talk about Freedom Next Time on 31st May. Includes a screening of Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

Theatre

  • The cast of The Importance of Being Earnest are going walkabout tomorrow, starting in Trafalgar Square at 4.30pm

British TV

  • Sky has 340,000 new subscribers and 25% of its subscribers use Sky+ [free registration required]
  • Timewatch is 25
  • A new Abigail’s Party is being planned by the Beeb [subscription required]

US TV

  • Ruin the ending of this season of CSI for yourself (at least I didn’t put it in the headline, unlike a certain site and newspaper. Grrr…) [spoilers!]
  • HBO does Sex and the City again, except in Africa this time
  • Killing off all your cast limits you, apparently, says 24 co-exec producer David Fury
  • Thomas Dekker didn’t have a problem being gay on Heroes, he says
  • Masters of Science Fiction finally emerges into the schedules
  • Because television really is weird, how about a pirate reality TV show. No, really. Sixteen people are going to compete on CBS to become the Pirate Master

More day-off news

1 May 2007 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Film/Comics

  • A new trailer for The Fantastic Four
  • Mandrake The Magician finally has a director. Seriously? They think we want an adaptation of that?
  • Robert Downey Jr explains the politics of Iron Man.
  • Hugh Laurie and the other Chris Evans join the cast of Night Watch
  • Mel Gibson’s planning a sequel to Maverick?
  • It’s all go on The Mummy 3: 26-year-old Luke Ford will play Brendan Fraser’s son, Michelle Yeoh will play the wizard and they’re recasting Rachel Weisz

US TV

News

Monday morning day-off news

30 April 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Comic Doctor

You’d never guess I wasn’t supposed to be working today, would you? Must. Work. Harder…

Doctor Who

Films

  • Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse will be two separate movies in the UK. The first part will be out on September 21st
  • Iron Man will have both the original grey and the more famous red and gold suits
  • Frost-Nixon is being made into a movie with Frank Langella as Nixon. Will Michael Sheen get to be Frost again?
  • Ridley Scott to direct revisionist Robin Hood film Nottingham, with Russell Crowe as the brave and good Sheriff
  • Daniel Craig doesn’t like having his bottom snapped, allegedly
  • Darren Aronofsky wants to make a film about Noah
  • Gordon Ramsay: the movie?
  • Old Clive Owen mini-series Second Sight to be adapted

Technology

British TV

  • Freesat’s been given the all-clear by the BBC Trust. Good news: it’ll be futureproof
  • Richard Herring talks about his new sitcom

US TV

  • New characters for Adult Swim
  • Conan O’Brien blames NBC for the demise of Andy Barker, PI
  • Studio 60‘s coming back on May 24 in the current ER slot
  • Whatever happened to Masters of Science Fiction?
  • The UK’s Man Stroke Woman to be remade by and with Sean Hayes

Monday’s fun-filled news

23 April 2007 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Brrr. It’s a bit nippy out…

It’s been a while since I’ve included a Mary Whitehouse Experience quote in anything.

Doctor Who

Film

  • William Fichtner joins the cast of The Dark Knight
  • Harry Potter V’s trailer is up (if you can watch it)
  • Sienna Miller replaces Lohan in Dylan Thomas biopic
  • A spin-off from Get Smart, starring Masi Oka, will appear on DVD just 10 days after the movie airs
  • An Illusionist reunion? Jessica Biel might be Betty Ross to Edward Norton’s The Incredible Hulk
  • Richard Branson cut from BA’s in-flight Casino Royale showings

Radio

  • Alex Zane is the new host of the breakfast show on XFM

Theater

British TV

US TV